The full results, selected highlights, match reports and statistics from the 2018 Premier League Darts season.

The Premier League Darts season, which got underway in Dublin on February 1, has concluded in emphatic fashion, with Michael van Gerwen romping away to his fourth title in his sixth successive final.

The world number one topped the regular season table for the sixth year in a row and on Play-Off night he defeated Rob Cross in the last four before trashing Michael Smith 11-4 with an astonishing average of 112.37.

Here you can look back on how the season unfolded with the final table, results, round-ups, selected match highlights and all the key statistics.

Rob Cross capped an incredible debut year as a professional by winning the World Darts Championship, and headlines four new faces for the 2018 Premier League.

World Grand Prix champion Daryl Gurney, Champions League of Darts winner Mensur Suljovic and 2017 UK Open finalist Gerwyn Price will also come in to make their Prmeier League debuts.

Michael van Gerwen will be bidding to win his fourth Premier League title as the defending champion when the 2018 season begins at Dublin's 3Arena on Thursday February 1.

Former champions Gary Anderson and Raymond van Barneveld are joined by 2017 runner-up Peter Wright, while 2012 runner-up Simon Whitlock and former World Youth Champion Michael Smith return to the Premier League field this year.

Former champion James Wade, 2011 finalist Adrian Lewis, Jelle Klaasen and Kim Huybrechts also drop out of the Premier League after competing in 2017.

Premier League Darts 2018 Odds

Two-time defending champion Michael van Gerwen is hot favourite at 10/11 with Sky Bet to win the Premier League for a third successive year while world champion Rob Cross is next in the running at 7/2.

However, Sky Bet have boosted every player's odds ahead of the tournament meaning you can get 10/11 and 7/2 on MVG and Cross respectively...

Premier League Darts 2018 Format

The below details are subject to change

The 10 competing players will face each other once in a league phase over the opening nine Thursday nights but the bottom two throwers in the table following Judgement Night will be eliminated.Six more league nights follow, with the remaining eight players facing each other once more before the top four then progress to the play-offs at The O2 in London.

Each league match is played over a maximum of 12 legs, with players earning two points for a win (by reaching seven legs) and one point for a draw. The player named on the left in the fixture will throw first in the opening leg but this will be reversed should they meet again.

If players are tied on points in the league table, leg difference will be the first deciding factor. If this is also a tie, then legs won against throw will be the next deciding factor, and any further tie would be split by a comparison of the relevant players' three-dart tournament average at that stage.

The play-offs consist of two semi-finals (best of 19 legs) and then the final (best of 21 legs), which will see the tournament's champion crowned.

Premier League Darts: Prize Fund

Winner £250,000Runner-Up £120,000Semi-Finalists £80,000Fifth Place £65,000Sixth Place £55,000Seventh Place £50,000Eighth Place £45,000Ninth Place £30,00010th Place £25,000

Premier League Darts History

The Premier League, a much-loved event for all darts fans and punters, was launched by Sky Sports in 2005 and takes the sport's biggest names all over the UK and Ireland as they compete in a round robin format in a bid to reach the play-offs, when the title is ultimately decided.

The world's top four automatically qualify for the event and are joined by six wildcard selections made by the PDC and Sky Sports to complete a final field.

Unsurprisingly Phil Taylor is the most successful Premier League player of all time having topped the table eight times and going on to lift the trophy on six occasions, while he also went a record 44 games unbeaten from 2005-2008.

James Wade first broke his dominance in 2009 when defeating Taylor's conqueror Mervyn King 13-8 and The Power has only won it twice since then, with Gary Anderson (2011 & 2015), Michael van Gerwen (2013, 2016 & 2017) and Raymond van Barneveld (2014) being the other champions.

Below we have details of the past finals, a selection of records, the final table of each previous season and a look at which players have ever featured in the event.